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- on Tue 26 Aug 2008
- 04:28:53 PM UTC
I forgot the details...
Norton found 16 instances. Here is a sample:
Threat Location on Site
C:\WINDOWS\system32\net.exe
http://www.mywot.com/.../ie
C:\WINDOWS\System32\WScript.exe
http://www.mywot.com/.../ie
C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe
http://www.mywot.com/.../ie
C:\WINDOWS\system32\net1.exe
http://www.mywot.com/.../ie
C:\WINDOWS\system32\attrib.exe
http://www.mywot.com/.../ie
VIRUS:[26637]Downloader
http://www.mywot.com/.../ie
VIRUS:[11027]Trojan.Dropper
http://www.mywot.com/.../ie
VIRUS:[40673]Infostealer.Gampass
http://www.mywot.com/.../ie
C:\WINDOWS\ydsi.exe
http://www.mywot.com/.../ie
C:\WINDOWS\tbyr.exe
http://www.mywot.com/.../ie -
- on Tue 26 Aug 2008
- 04:28:55 PM UTC
Wild guess from my part:
Wild guess from my part: people use active links when they post reports about malware?
instead of using stuff like hXXp://something(dot)sometoplevelhere
"Men make good pets."
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- on Tue 26 Aug 2008
- 04:45:00 PM UTC
You're probably right, but...
You're probably right, but the rating is still silly.
SiteAdvisor could be rated even more red, for the same reason.I rather think this shows that robots have their limitations
compared to human reviewers... ;) -
- on Tue 26 Aug 2008
- 05:21:16 PM UTC
Right you are about robots
Right you are about robots versus hunams :)
"Men make good pets."
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- on Tue 26 Aug 2008
- 05:02:33 PM UTC
useless
I think this new thing by Norton is useless, it shows safe sites as unsafe.
for example weebly.com where I have my site dim1319.weebly.com; it do not show subdomain and the safaty data are old maybe too old
http://www.symantec.com/security_response/writeup....
"W32.Spybot.Worm
Risk Level 2: LowDiscovered: April 16, 2003
Updated: November 30, 2007 10:19:46 AM
"
AntiVir Premium say that mywot.com and weebly.com are safe.Finally I do not seen something better than WOT.
Greeting D.1319
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- on Tue 26 Aug 2008
- 06:52:51 PM UTC
Re: Norton Safe Web rates WOT
I just registered to Norton Safe Web and looked at the review for mywot.com. The review said that our IE-download page contains drive by downloads, which clearly is not true.
I asked Norton Safe Web to review our site again and correct the error in site rating. Let's see how long it takes them to change our rating.
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- on Tue 26 Aug 2008
- 07:07:44 PM UTC
Let us hope they correct things fast...
I also send a suggestion to them, after I discovered the feedback possibility.
Timo: "Let's see how long it takes them to change our rating."
Agree. It's a silly mistake, so it should be corrected soon. Let's hope so...
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- on Tue 26 Aug 2008
- 08:35:07 PM UTC
Re: Download page
If they're worried about malware links, why would they flag the download page? I mean, that's one of the few pages on this site where there's never been any user content. Must a bug in Norton's crawler or something.
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- on Wed 27 Aug 2008
- 06:07:18 AM UTC
Re: Norton SafeWeb rates WOT dangerous..?
Norton's rating for mywot.com now seems to have changed to "Untested".
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- on Wed 27 Aug 2008
- 08:28:04 AM UTC
Worse than useless.
I just opened a new tab in Firefox and tried to see the latest Norton rating for myWOT.
It crashed my browser. :-(
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- on Wed 27 Aug 2008
- 01:31:00 PM UTC
WOT is clean based on our own scanning with Norton 360!
I just received a message from Timo and he had just finished scanning the WOT server and all our downloadables for viruses, spyware, and all possible types of malware. We used Norton 360 to do the full scan - oh yes, we use their products - and the result was that there is no malware! MyWOT.com is completely clean!
This leads us to the next question: what caused this false alarm? What makes it more serious is that the result is based on their technical analysis, not user ratings. As you saw on their site, the user rating stayd throughout the process on the level 4.8 out of 5. The user rating is a totally isolated figure and doesn't seem to have anything to do with the Norton safety rating.
Well, I hope that this was an accident. Doesn't give a good picture of the reliability of their security processes. Lets see what happens with WOT rating now!
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- on Wed 27 Aug 2008
- 05:22:19 PM UTC
Re: Norton SafeWeb rates WOT dangerous..?
Norton has now changed the rating of WOT web site back to Safe.
Norton SafeWeb rates WOT dangerous..?
I recently noticed that Norton had also joined the advisor field.
But as I visited them today, I was quite surprised: WOT is RED!
16 threats are supposed to lurk here; "Severity: High".
Not just some nuisance factors, but directs threats
that surfers would catch as "Drive-By Downloads"....?
What the devil goes on here?!?
Somebody should take a closer look,
and resolve this absurd issue...
Here's the link: http://safeweb.norton.com/report/show?url=mywot.co...
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